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The KDD cup 2015 dataset is about MOOC dropout prediction. I have had recently found that the dataset had been offline on the official website. Thus, I have uploaded a copy of the KDD cup 2015 dataset on my website. You can download … Continue reading →

This tutorial will explain how to analyze text documents to discover complex and hidden relationships between words. We will illustrate this with a Sherlock Holmes novel. Moreover we will explain how hidden patterns in text can be used to recognize the author of a … Continue reading →

This week, I have been attending the DEXA 2016 and DA‎WAK 2016 conferences, in Porto, Portugal, from the 4th to 8th September 2016, to present three papers. In this blog post, I will give a brief report about these conferences. About these … Continue reading →

In this blog post, I will provide a brief report about the 12th Intern. Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2016), that I have attended from the 18th to 20th July 2016 in Newark, USA. About the conference This is the 12th edition … Continue reading →

In this blog post, I will provide a brief report about the 16th Industrial Conference on Data mining 2016, that I have attended from the 13 to 14 July 2016 in Newark, USA. About the conference The Industrial Conference on Data Mining is an … Continue reading →

A key question for data mining and data science researchers is to know what are the top journals and conferences in the field, since it is always best to publish in the most popular journals or conferences. In this blog post, … Continue reading →

In this blog post I will give an introduction to the discovery of periodic patterns in data. Mining periodic patterns is an important data mining task as patterns may periodically appear in all kinds of data, and it may be desirable to find them … Continue reading →

In this blog post, I will give an introduction to the task of sequence prediction, a popular data mining/machine learning task, which consist of predicting the next symbol of a sequence of symbols. This task is important as it have many … Continue reading →

In recent months/years, many blog posts have been trending on the social Web about what is a “data scientist“, as this term has become very popular. As there is much hype about this term, some people have even jokingly said that … Continue reading →